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  • April 2, 2013 | The Recorder

    Seeing Risk in Valley's Overlapping Roles

    SAN FRANCISCO — Perhaps nothing illustrates the clubby atmosphere of Silicon Valley quite like the tangled web of directors and consultants at of the area's companies.The

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  • May 15, 2007 | The Recorder

    GCs May Have to Answer for Stock Plans

    In January 2004, Mark Webbink, then-general counsel for software maker Red Hat Inc., entered into a plan designed to put his stock trades on autopilot.Broadcom Corp.'s general counsel,

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  • March 19, 2002 | Legal Times

    Lost in Space

    No one planned it this way. Less than two years ago, Silicon Valley firms and many others couldn't expand fast enough in Northern Virginia. They hardly expected the downturn in the tech market that

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  • December 4, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    GENENTECH INC. TO ACQUIRE TANOX INC. Winstead Sechrest & Minick represents Houston biotechnology company Tanox Inc. in its pending acquisition by Genentech Inc. for about $919 mill

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  • May 25, 2007 | Legal Times

    Smaller Law Firms Mull Associate Salary Hikes

    In the first weeks after a couple of local stalwarts raised their starting salaries for first-year associates to $160,000, Washington, D.C.'s largest firms are in a holding pattern, all nervously e

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  • January 2, 2002 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Decides to Freeze Associate Salaries in 2002

    In its latest move to cut costs, San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison confirmed Monday it will freeze associate salaries in 2002. Associates will not advance

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  • November 18, 1999 | The Recorder

    Love Me Tender

    As if the deal pace isn't frenzied enough, lawyers are now closing company sales even quicker. Flush with cash, technology companies have seized upon the tender offer as the quickest way to buy a

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  • October 22, 2001 | The Recorder

    The Legal Challenges of Canning Spam

    They've been sued, outlawed and blacklisted. But spammers continue to thrive.Part of the reason, attorneys and consumer advocates say, is that efforts to block unsolicited bulk e-mail

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  • June 9, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Privacy Unveiled

    This Month's Book Review:THE UNWANTED GAZE: THE DESTRUCTION OF PRIVACY IN AMERICABy Jeffrey Rosen(Random House, New York;222 pages; $24.95)Privac

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  • May 16, 2013 | The Recorder

    Fenwick Sets Course for China

    Fenwick & West has hired a corporate partner to lay the groundwork for an office in China -- the firm's first overseas.With the help of Eva Wang from Covington & Burling, Fenwi

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